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Early Addition: NYC Will Apparently NOT Be Invaded By Cicadas
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Ben Yakas
Published Jun 5, 2013
Modified Jun 5, 2013
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Published Jun 5, 2013
Modified Jun 5, 2013
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- East Harlem assemblyman arrested for drunk driving in Albany.
- A Spanish town has a unique way of dealing with bad dog owners who let their animals poop everywhere: they mail them their poop.
- Chirlane McCray supports the biracial Cheerios ad—and her husband Bill De Blasio!
- Is Christine Quinn best friends with professors convicted of INCEST? Or has the NY Post gotten extra trolly with their ridiculous headlines? (Hint: it's the latter)
- Sacre bleu: the French reportedly learned how to make wine from the Italians!
- Evangeline Lilly looks kind of like an elfin Robin Hood in a new The Hobbit promo pic.
- Some people think dolphins are not fun to swim with.
- Lede of the day: "A 66-year-old man who thought he merely had an unusually tiny penis was shocked to find out from doctors that he was actually a woman."
- It seems that the great cicada invasion of 2013 has been cancelled for NYC.
- Three Turkish activists launched a crowd-sourced fundraising campaign on Indiegogo to buy a full-page ad in the front section of the New York Times—and it was one of the fastest major political funding campaigns in the site history.
- And finally, this polite dog just wants his bed back, kitty:
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